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1908 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

1908 Penn State Nittany Lions football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–5
Head coach
CaptainBull McCleary
Home stadiumBeaver Field
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     11 0 1
Harvard     9 0 1
Cornell     7 1 1
Fordham     5 1 0
Yale     7 1 1
Dartmouth     6 1 1
Carlisle     10 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 2 1
Army     6 1 2
Pittsburgh     8 3 0
Lafayette     6 2 2
Princeton     5 2 3
Syracuse     6 3 1
Brown     5 3 1
Temple     3 2 1
Colgate     4 3 0
Lehigh     4 3 0
Dickinson     5 4 0
Amherst     3 3 2
Holy Cross     4 4 0
Penn State     5 5 0
Vermont     3 3 3
Wesleyan     3 4 2
Springfield Training School     3 4 1
NYU     2 3 2
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 1
Bucknell     3 5 2
Rutgers     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Carnegie Tech     3 7 0
Geneva     1 6 2
Tufts     1 6 1
Villanova     1 6 0
New Hampshire     1 7 0
Drexel     0 7 0

The 1908 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1908 college football season.[1] The team was coached by Tom Fennell and played its home games on Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19Bellefonte AcademyL 5–6
September 26Grove City
  • Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 31–0
October 3vs. CarlisleWilkes-Barre, PAL 5–1210,000
October 10at PennL 0–67,000[2]
October 17Geneva
  • Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 51–0[3]
October 24West Virginia
  • Beaver Field
  • State College, PA (rivalry)
W 12–0
October 31at CornellIthaca, NYL 4–10
November 7Bucknell
  • Beaver Field
  • State College, PA
W 33–6
November 14at NavyL 0–5
November 26at PittsburghW 12–69,000[4]

References

  1. ^ "Penn State Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "Penn State Holds U.P. To 6-0 Score". The Scranton Republican. October 11, 1908. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "State Outplays Geneva, Score 51–0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 18, 1908. p. 23. Retrieved September 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "State Beats Pitt in Annual Battle on the Gridiron". The Pittsburgh Post. November 27, 1908. pp. 1, 11 – via Newspapers.com.